Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-07
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1857,

undersigned SpCClal COMMISSIONER WILL on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 81, 1857,
beginning Mt 9 O'Clock Il M, sell at public auc.
ton, at the front door ofthe Court House OF Ohio
county, West Virginia, the tract of land belong
ing 10 the Northwest Virginia Agricultural So
ciety, known rs the "OLD FAIR GROUND
PROPERTY, situated on Wheeling Island, north
of Zsnc street, and west OF North Huron street.
and containing, when measured TO the top OF the
liver bank, twenty-five and twelyc-hundredihs
acres. The tract extends, and will be sold, fully
TO the river.
Under authority OF said decree the said com
missioners have caused The property 20 be divid.
ed into arrelS, AMI have laid of streets and
alleys through the same. A plat, showing the
arrangement Of blocks, lots, streets and alleys,
has been prepared. and may be seen at the Office
Of George Hook, Clerk Of the County Court of
Ohio county. Printed copies of said plat may,
on and after October LIST, be had OF the under
sigued.
The property will Grst be offered rs Il whole.
afterwards in blocks, and then in lots, as shown
on the plat, and will be sold In whichever way
may appear the most advantageous. when of.
fered IN blocks, the blocks numbered five and
six may be offered together as one parcel. When
offered in lots, " contiguous lots may he offered
together, if bidders 80 desire, lfthe whole tract
be sod To one purchaser, the streets, alleys and
lots may be djsrcgardCd He, in such case, he
comes the purchaser Of the streets end alleys
within the boundaries Of the tract.
II any block be sold separately 20 one pur.
chaser, ne, Of course, II ay disregard the lot lines
within the block, but alleys must he opened. II
the blocks numbered five and six be sold to-
get" or 10 one purchaser, the street Tunnlng be
tween said blocks, an the alley Tunping through
block five, may be disregarded, al the election OF
such purchaser, Ia he made and declared at the
time o the purchase II he 80 elect 10 disregard
land CloSCl said street and alley, then the south
end Of said street e here II passes through block
seven, fronting on Zane street, and extending
north to the alley parallel with Zane street, Will
be sold rs a lot or lots.
There are on said Fair Ground tract more than
two hundred and thirty trfVs, Of which about
cighty are LpmbAriY Poplar, OF the rem inter
the greater part are Maple. AllOf said trees are
well grown probably more than half OF them
having trunks \ foot or more In diameter
TERMS OF SALE-FRch purchaser 10 pay In
hand one Third, al least Of his purchase money,
and AS much more thereof ~ he may choose, and
the residue, il any, in two cqual inStalments,
hearing interest from the day Of sale, and pay.
able respectively. I'm one and two years theTesf.
ter, the deferred payments 10 be secured by
notes with good personal security. But II any
purchaser pay in hand one-half, or more, 81 his
purchase money, his notes for the deferred install
meutS Ofihe same shall be taken without personal
security. In every case, however, the title must
be retained as security until payment In full
GEORGE II. CALDWELL,
Nm. ERSkISE,
Special Commissioners.
Icartil; that bond has been given by said
Special Commissioners, as required by said de-
cree. JOHN W.
sep2gb Clerk OF said Court.